Maxim Mogilovsky and Svetlana Smolina to Offer Faculty and Guest Recital of Solo and Duet Works Entitled "Almost All American," on Saturday, April 29, 6:30 P.M. in Warner Concert Hall at 6:30 p.m. Story by Emily Manzo
	back to the main story		About the Artists Svetlana Smolina graduated from the Nizhny-Novgorod Music College where she studied with Natalia Fish, the Brussels Royal Conservatory with Yevgeny Mogilevsky, and is currently pursuing her Master's Degree with Alexander Toradze at Indiana University. Smolina has won numerous prizes in Europe, Russia and the United States. She has appeared at the Sharov International Festival in Gorky, the Hollywood Bowl, the "White Nights" Festival, St. Petersburg; Mikkeli Festival (Finland), Rotterdam Philips Gergiev Festival, Edinburgh Festival 1997 (with direct BBC broadcast), Ravinia Festival (Rising Stars), Festival di Stresa (Italy), Festival de Chartre (France), and New Jersey Symphony's Rachmaninoff Festival 2000. Smolina has performed as recitalist and soloist throughout Russian, Europe and the US, and will make her New York debut at Steinway Hall in the upcoming year. Other future engagements include performances at the "White Nights" Festival 2000, Stresa Festival 2000, Tchaikovsky project together with Joseph Horowitz and New Jersey Symphony at NJPAK in Newark, New Jersey, and a J.S. Bach 250-year memorial celebration with four piano concertos in Brussels, under the auspices of the Yamaha Corporation. Maxim Mogilevsky was the last pupil of Anaida Sumbatian, famed teacher of Vladimir Ashkenazy. Mogilevsky made his debut at the age of 13 as soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic, under the direction of Dimtry Kitaenko. He graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, where he studied with Lev Naumoff and received the Tchaikovsky Scholarship to study at The Juilliard School with Bella Davidovich. He has won prizes at the Tokyo, Pretoria and Opporto Piano Competitions, and has appeared as soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, New Japan Symphony, Belgium Radio-TV Orchestra, and the St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra. Mogilevsky has given recitals at the Festival L'Ile-de-France, the Festival de Wallonie, Sydney Festival and the Yokohama Festival, as well as in Paris, Brussels, London, The Hague, Milano, Argentina. He has toured Japan and South Korea. Mogilevsky received the "Angel Award" at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival, and performed at the Rotterdam Philips Gergiev Festival and the Mikkeli Festival (Finland). In 1999 he performed on Stresa Festival in Italy where his partner was Yuri Bashmet. He has appeared at the Carinthischer Sommer Festival in Austria, the Festival de Chartre (France) and the Kravis Center at West Palm Beach, Florida. His future engagements are similar to that of his wife's: the "White Nights" Festival in St. Petersburg in June, performances at summer festivals in Israel, Italy and Brussels. Mogilevsky will also perform at the orchestral festival at Mar del Plata (Argentina), and the Tchaikovsky Festival Project with Joseph Horowitz and the New Jersey Symphony at NJPAC (2001). Mogilevsky is also teaching at Indian University South Bend (assitant to Alexander Toadze) and Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music ("Charge des Cours").
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